Members
Aggrey, Sammy
Professor, Department of Poultry Science
Phone: 706-542-1354
Office: 114 Poultry Sciences Building
Lab Website | saggrey@uga.edu
Research Interest
Nutrigenomics, Functional Genomics, Bioinformatics, Growth and Skeletal Modeling
Amster, Jon
Professor and Head, Department of Chemistry
Phone: 706-542-2001
Office: 285 Chemistry Building
Lab Website | jamster@uga.edu
Research Interest
Development of new spectrometric methods for the identification and structural analysis of high weight molecules
Ayyampalayam, Saravanaraj
Scientific Computing Professional, Enterprise Information Technology Services
Phone: 706-542-0188
Office: 0431 Stegeman Coliseum
Lab Website | raj76@uga.edu
Research Interest
Bioinformatics, large scale data management and analysis, high performance computing
Bhandarkar, Suchi
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Phone: 706-542-1082
Office: 538a Boyd Graduate Research Center
Lab Website | suchi@uga.edu
Research Interest
Computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, artificial intelligence, and computational biology
Burke, John M.
Associate Professor, Departments of Plant Biology
Phone: 706-583-5511
Office: Miller Plant Sciences Building, RM 4617
Lab Website | jmburke@uga.edu
Research Interest
Plant evolutionary genetics and genomics
Cai, Liming
Professor, Departments of Computer Science
Phone: 706-542-6081
Office: 544 Boyd Graduate Research Center
Lab Website | cai@cs.uga.edu
Research Interest
RNA Structures and Algorithms
Carlson, Russell W.
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | CCRC Executive Technical Director, Plant and Microbial Complex Carbohydrates
Phone: 706-542-4439
Office: Complex Carbohydrate Research Center | 315 Riverbend Road
Lab Website | rcarlson@uga.edu
Research Interest
Molecular basis of the interaction between a bacterium and its plant or animal host
Davis, Melissa B.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-5014
Office: B408A Davison Life Science Complex
Lab Website | mbdavis@uga.edu
Research Interest
Breast Cancer Subtype Etiology, Cancer Immunology, and Cancer Health Disparities
Dickerson, Harry
Professor and Associate Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, Departments of Infectious Diseases
Phone: 706-542-5734
Office: 227 Vet Med-1
Lab Website | hwd@uga.edu
Research Interest
Teleost immune response, Ichthyophthirius mutifiliis, gene expression and function
Glover, Claiborne
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-1769
Office: A320B Davison Life Sciences
Lab Website | glover@uga.edu
Research Interest
Protein phohoryation, signal transduction, cell cycle regulation Saccharimyces cerevisiae. Bioinformatic analysis of achaeal non-coding RNAs
Huang, Hanwen
Assistant Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Phone: 706-713-2674
Office: B.S. Miller Hall, RM 210
Lab Website | huanghw@uga.edu
Research Interest
Statistical Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bayesian Analysis, and Bioinformatics
Kushner, Sidney R.
Professor, Departments of Genetics
Phone: 706-542-1437
Office: C414B Davison Life Science Complex
Lab Website | skushner@uga.edu
Research Interest
Mechanisms for post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes
Landau, David P.
Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of
Physics
Phone: 706-542-2908
Office: 321A Physics
Lab Website | dlandau@physast.uga.edu
Research Interest
Phase transitions and critical phenomena in magnets, alloys(including binary semiconductors), and equilibrium polymer systems
Lee, Margie D
Professor, Departments of
Plant Biology
Phone: 706-583-0797
Office: Department of Pathology
Lab Website | mdlee@uga.edu
Research Interest
Molecular ecology of intestinal bacterial communities, mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance, and molecular epidemiology of food safety pathogens
Leebens-Mack, Jim
Professor, Departments of
Plant Biology
Phone: 706-583-5573
Office: 2101 Miller Plant Sciences
Lab Website | jleebensmack@uga.edu
Research Interest
Phylogenomics employs genome-scale sequence data to resolve organismal relationships and investigate gene family evolution within the context of organismal relationships
Lu, Hang
Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and James R. Fair Faculty Fellow
Phone: 404-894-8473
Office: GATech | 311 Ferst Dr. NW | Atlanta, GA 30332
Lab Website | hang.lu@gatech.edu
Research Interest
Employing BioMEMS and microfluidic devices to address questions in neuroscience, cell biology, and biotechnology
Miller, John A.
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Phone: 706-542-3440
Office: 219 Hardman
Lab Website | jam@cs.uga.edu
Research Interest
Database systems, modeling & simulation, web services/workflow, and bioinformatics
Moran, Mary Ann
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Marine Sciences
Phone: 706-542-6481
Office: 285A Marine Science Building
Lab Website | mmoran@uga.edu
Research Interest
Database systems, modeling & simulation, web services/workflow, and bioinformatics
Orlando, Ron
Professor, Department of Biochemistry Molecular Biology | CCRC
Phone: 706-542-4414
Office: 1078 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website | orlando@ccrc.uga.edu
Research Interest
n/a
Park, Andrew W.
Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases | Odum School of Ecology
Phone: 706-542-2968
Office: 106 Ecology
Lab Website | awpark@uga.edu
Research Interest
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Ecological & evolutionary host-parasite interactions.
Peterson, David S.
Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator & Assistant Department Head of Infectious Diseases
Phone: 706-542-5242
Office: 345c Coverdell Center
Lab Website | dspete@uga.edu
Research Interest
Characterization of adhesion proteins which mediate host-parasite interactions in Plasmodium falciparum
Peterson, Joy Doran
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Phone: 706-542-4115
Office: 546 Biological Sciences
Lab Website | jpeterso@uga.edu
Research Interest
Microbial mining, disrupting biomass to release sugar, fermenting organisms, and economical viability research
Prestegard, James H.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry | CCRC
Phone: 706-542-6281
Office: 1077 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website | jpresteg@ccrc.uga.edu
Research Interest
Charbohydrate Chemistry and Metabolomics
Reeves, Jaxk H.
Director, Statistical Consulting Center and Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
Phone: 706-542-3316
Office: 444 Brooks Hall
Research Interest
Climate statistics and statistical phylogenetics
Rekaya, Romdhane
Professor, Department of Animal and Dairy Science & Statistics
Phone: 706-542-0949
Office: 348 Animal Dairy Sciences
Research Interest
Bayesian inferences and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, longitudinal data modeling, microarray data analysis and bioinformatics
Rose, John
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-1750
Office: B204B Life Sciences Complex
Research Interest
Structural biology, protein structure-function, x-ray crystallography, single wavelength anomalous scattering, structural protenomics
Sabatini, Robert
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-1737
Office: B122 Life Sciences Complex
Lab Website | sabatini@uga.edu
Research Interest
Antigenic variation in African trypanosomes, and biosynthesis and function of base J
Song, Xiao
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Phone: 706-542-1540
Office: 213 Miller Hall | Health Sciences Campus
Research Interest
Statistical methods to deal with covariate measurement error and missing data, and to identify biomarkers for prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment selection
Summers, Anne O.
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Phone: 706-542-2669
Office: 263 Biological Sciences
Research Interest
Bacterial plasmid-encoded resistance to inorganic and organic mercury compounds (the mer locus) as a model for (a) gene regulation by toxic metals, (b) microbial detoxification of
environmental hazards, and (c) the influence of toxic metals on the commensal microbiota of vertebrates
Wang, Bi-cheng
Professor and GRA Eminent Research Scholar of Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Phone: 706-542-1747
Office: B202 Life Sciences Complex
Lab Website | bcwang@uga.edu
Research Interest
Structural Biology / Physical Biochemistry
Wells, Lance
Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Phone: 706-542-7806
Office: 3018 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website | lwells@ccrc.uga.edu
Research Interest
Roles of regulatory post-translational modifications of proteins
York, William
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Phone: 706-542-4628
Office: 2081 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Lab Website | will@ccrc.uga.edu
Research Interest
Structural and conformational analysis of complex carbohydrates